All Ready-to-use articles – Page 5
-
-
IssuesReady-to-use Movie: The Muppet Christmas Carol
No Christmas list of the best Christmas films is complete without The Muppet Christmas Carol.
-
BlogReady-to-use Movie - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games was a surprising film when it was released back in 2012. Not only was it a really good adaptation of a (really good) novel, but it managed to appeal to teenagers and adults alike. Catching Fire is a rare sequel; in many ways it is better than its predecessor. It has a bit of everything when it comes to ethical discussion: the class system, the right to kill, celebrity culture, disagreeing with authority and a good old fashioned discussion about love.
-
-
BlogReady-to-use Mentoring: Invitation and Challenge
A couple of years ago I was drafted in to help a rural youth work trust with a couple of youth groups and drop-ins – the leader had stepped down from the groups because it was clearly not working for him or the young people…
-
-
IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: YouTube Channels
YouTube channels are big business these days – teenagers are earning millions of pounds, getting millions of views each month and often making careers out of it. Of course, the majority of teenagers are consumers, spending hours watching this content. Yes, this can be unhealthy, but it can also be educational and it can actually raise aspirations in young people who might otherwise not have aspirations.
-
IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: The Character Pyramid
This character pyramid is a resource that could easily structure a whole term of mentoring sessions. This session just covers the basic idea.
-
-
IssuesReady-to-use Parable: The ten cheerleaders
The kingdom is like ten cheerleaders, who took their pom poms and went to support their marathon runner. They took up their position and started cheering. Five of the cheerleaders were disorganised and brought nothing to drink for the event, and the other five took some bottles of water. When the runner was delayed the cheerleaders started to get thirsty so stopped cheering so loudly.
-
Issues
Ready-To-Use Craft Ideas: Christmas Crafts
It’s that time of year again when we will inevitably find ourselves trying to cram lots more activities into lives that are already very full. The children we work with will be doing loads of Christmas stuff at school and may well be ‘Christmassed out’, especially when it comes to craft. Is there a way we can help youngsters (and ourselves) to focus a bit differently on Christmas – perhaps more on what the Christmas gift of Jesus asks of them this Christmas? Here are three activities, none of which require much preparation.
-
Issues
Ready-to-use Schools Work: The Christmas Truces
An assembly for use in a secondary school based on the December 1914 Christmas truces, to teach that being a Christian is more important than belonging to a nation.
-
-
BlogReady-to-use Games and Icebreakers: Christmas Games
Christmas games are always a mixed bag. On the one hand, everyone is so excited by the birth of our saviour / imminent school holiday that you could pretty much put an empty Santa hat in front of them, label it a game, and that would be enough. On the other hand, the need to connect to *cliché klaxon* ‘the reason for the season’ means that more effort is actually required at Christmas than at any other time.
-
BlogReady-To-Use Discussion: The Persecuted Church
According to Open Doors, 100 million Christians around the world face persecution.
-
BlogReady-to-use Reflective Journal: Prayer circles of emotional health
There are certain building blocks which help us to stay emotionally healthy; the activity below is a way to engage with God around those building blocks.
-
IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Clarity
This year I moved into a new role mentoring artists for a Christian record label. One of the key issues I find musicians struggle with is the muddiness of ‘not knowing.’ Not knowing what to do, how to do it, or why it matters. It restricts their creativity, undermines their goals and paralyses their to-do list! My advice is mostly common sense, but without an outside focus they don’t know where to begin or what to get on with first. The potential is there, but confusion robs them of achieving it.
-
IssuesReady-to-use Discussion: Santa Claus
Even without the sneaking-into-your- house-late-at-night thing, Santa Claus is pretty creepy, right?
-
-
IssuesReady-to-use Mentoring: Comfort, Stretch and Panic
Ask your mentee to suggest the first word that comes into their head to do with what it means to have character, starting with each letter in the word ‘character’ (eg courage, heart, accountability etc).
